The Toshiba Satellite U925t is a slider-style convertible that comes with a touch screen, Core i5 processor, and 128GB SSD. Its price has been reduced to $799 from $1,149 at the Microsoft Store.
Toshiba

In what could be a sign of things to come, the Microsoft Store is slashing prices on a variety of hybrid laptop-tablet models.

And IDC said in March that it expects computer shipments to drop 1.3 percent this year, worse than its prior view for a 2.8 percent rise. And that decline comes after a 3.7 percent slide in 2012.

Updated at 10:35 p.m. PDT: As of 10:30 p.m. PT, the Microsoft Store was temporarily down.

Updated at 10:45 p.m. PDT: The store is back up. Note that the Acer Iconia W510-1674 Tablet was listed at $399 earlier in the day and is now back to $499 (after the store went back up). And note that all convertible models were previously viewable on one page. Now they're divvied up into two pages.

It didn't take long for the HP Envy x2 to drop to $599 from its original price of $849.
Hewlett-Packard

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